In Hydroelectric Power, witness the power of water in this collection of recordings captured at historic hydropower plants and massive concrete dams in the United States.

In the American West, water scarcity and allocation are hot topic issues. Gain access inside a working powerhouse along the Boise River as one of three generators, producing over 1,000–kilowatts of power, crank up from a cold start in advance of the irrigation season. Get hit in the face with spray from Shoshone Falls, a waterfall taller than Niagara Falls, during a high water event. Stand 100 yards downstream from the massive Bonneville Lock and Dam along the Columbia River in Oregon as 3,487 Kgal/sec rush past, generating 624 megawatts of power. Listen to the thunderous sound of Gorge Dam along the Cuyahoga River. Yes, the river that caught fire. This decommissioned 60-foot tall, 400-foot-wide dam has sat idle for over 50 years. Plans are in the works to remove it, thereby freeing up the flow of the snaking river from its headwaters to Lake Erie.

Admittedly, waterfalls and dams recorded up close can sometimes sound a lot like white noise. Yet there are distinctions. In Hydroelectric Power, each sound takes on the character of its environment, making it unique to that space and time.

These recordings, captured in pristine 24-bit/96 kHz quality by field recordist Richard Alan Hannon, will complement your documentary, film and game design needs until, unfortunately, the rivers run dry. Seamless loops have been meticulously crafted from sounds that allow for it. Providing more opportunities to utilize these sounds in your projects.

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Hydroelectric Power

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Irrigation is a collection of water flow ambiances captured in and around the Treasure Valley of southwestern Idaho, where the Payette, Boise, Weiser, Malheur, Owyhee and Burnt rivers drain into the Snake River. Follow the flow of crystal clear water as it travels from mountain-fed streams and rivers down into large reservoirs. Listen as water courses through the pipes and along the canals that carry it to sprinklers large and small. Finally, the water fans out onto verdant golf courses, people’s front yards and farmland.

Be inches away from the sweeping spray of center-pivot irrigators. These create acres and acres of green circles in an otherwise barren landscape. They make agriculture here possible. As a side benefit, they produce cadenced sounds that will lull you to sleep. 

Water allocation, i.e., who gets how much when there’s not enough to go around, is a huge, polarizing issue confronting residents, industries, politicians and wildlife in the western United States. Use these recordings, captured in pristine 24-bit/96 kHz quality by field recordist Richard Alan Hannon, to illustrate subject matter that will be in the headlines for years to come. Seamless loops have been meticulously crafted from sounds that allow for it. Giving you more opportunities to utilize these sounds in your projects. 

Learn more and purchase this library at www.evocativesound.com

Irrigation

Irrigation Sound Effects Library Preview

Wind Chimes is a collection of meticulously captured wind chimes purposely recorded with a pair of high-end Barcus Berry 4000 (Planar Wave Piano and Harp Pickup System) contact microphones. By using this type of mic instead of traditional ones, the attack, sustain and decay of each tube struck by its clapper are experienced in ways unheard by the naked ear. Every tinkle and plink, every clang and rattle sound a bit more removed from its environment than normal. Harmonics are heard alongside fundamental frequencies. Every recording is unique to its moment in time. Each note is as random as the wind that plays it. These chimes are anything but showroom new. Some are weathered. Some are outwardly neglected. A few sound pretty, others not so much.

I recorded in situ when possible, spreading out cables and bags on my back porch, in friend’s and newfound friend’s yards, on a stranger’s patio (after getting her permission), in a state park and at a local golf course restaurant while eating a pretty good burger and looking down upon the 18th hole. I recorded in cemeteries too. As you might expect, cemeteries made for the quietest recording locations. Know that I approached each gravesite with respect. I even placed an ad on an internet marketplace asking to record people's wind chimes. One woman responded, giving me a large one she could no longer keep. It is ringing on my back porch now, no doubt annoying the neighbors.

I usually recorded for an hour at each location. But for this library, I chose shorter ranges of time that contain soft, medium and loud chimes in one recording. There’s no road noise, no people talking, just occasional birdsong and varying degrees of wind, making it easier I hope to drop into your projects.

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Wind Chimes

Wind Chimes Sound Effects Library Preview

Commercial fireworks: Up Close and Loud is a collection of commercial-grade fireworks – the big stuff - shooting from mortar tubes not 20 feet from my microphones. Each thunderous burst is heard directly overhead. Many feature a long decay at the end. The result is an assemblage of sounds filled with power and punch. Every round leaving its tube gives off a solid gut-thumping boom. Only such nearby access can provide this perspective. 

If fireworks aren’t your thing, that’s cool. These files could have been used for any number of WWII movies I grew up watching and will put you right there on the battlefield again today.

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Typewriters is a sound effects collection chock-full of vintage typewriters making sounds beyond the simple click-clack-clunk heard in so many TV shows and movies. I was curious if there was more to the sound of these old machines than meets the naked ear. Would recording them with high-end Barcus Berry contact microphones help bring out the best in them sonically? After recording 20 typewriters for this library, and performing a variety of keystrokes and actions on each in isolation, I can definitively say, yes. 
Included are machines (standards, portables and ultraportables) from the early 20th century to the mid-1970s. Each machine taps its own staccato beat in a unique, almost musical nature right down to its warning bell. These files can enhance your next sound design project in nuanced ways that exceed the usual clickity-clack-clunk-thwack-smack we associate with these vintage machines. You'll get additional metallic zips, rips, twangs, growls, crunches, bounces, snaps, zings, rings and dings that will spark your imagination for uses that may have nothing to do with typewriters. For instance, many of these machines give off a metallic growl when their carriages are returned that would sound right at home in a sci-fi Serengeti picture. Let your imagination take over from where my tired fingers gave out.


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Note: In the preview above, I’m bumping sound against sound. However, in the library, I let these sounds - springs, levers, latches, knobs, buttons, keys, etc. -  ring out and fade until their natural end. You’ll also hear the faint sound of a babbling brook below the preview. Don’t worry, this is not part of the sound files you purchase.

Typewriters

Typewriters Sound Effects Library

Evocative Sound and Visuals is pleased to announce its latest sound effects library entitled, The Amish. It is a rare collection of high-quality recordings featuring life among an Old Order Amish community in northeast Ohio.

The library features these sounds and more:
The beginning of class in a one-room schoolhouse, including the morning bell, captured from the outside and inside.

Early-morning barn chores captured inside, including cow milking and tending to stalls. Bonus sounds include cows peeing and pooping right next to the mics. This was not a pleasant experience for me, but one that elicited much snickering from the youngsters.

Hitched teams of large draft horses, snorting and whinnying as they plow a muddy field, with pass-bys and follow-behinds.

The relaxing sounds of rain and rolling thunder, captured from inside an old metal-roofed barn on several occasions.

The peaceful sounds of clothes swaying on a line in an afternoon breeze.

The sound of cornstalks blowing in the wind in autumn and in winter, when they're dry and brittle.

The tink, tink, tap, tap as a farrier putting new shoes on a horse.

Bringing in dry hay at the end of the growing season, plus putting it into a silo.

Interior and exterior perspectives of two working vintage sawmills.

Inside a leather shop, where an Amish farmer makes hand-made flyswatters with his children.

The rhythmic sounds of a squeaky old metal windmill spinning, along with water that gurgles from the pipe as it comes out of the ground.

Wagon and buggy rides and pass-bys

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The Amish! ,Soundly Voice Designer Ashley B  1

By Evocative Sound And Visuals, Soundly Voice Designer Ashley B  2

Soundly Voice Designer Ashley B

Evocative Sound and Visuals is pleased to announce its latest sound effects library entitled, The Amish. It is a rare collection of high-quality recordings featuring life among an Old Order Amish community in northeast Ohio.

The library features these sounds and more:
The beginning of class in a one-room schoolhouse, including the morning bell, captured from the outside and inside.

Early-morning barn chores captured inside, including cow milking and tending to stalls. Bonus sounds include cows peeing and pooping right next to the mics. This was not a pleasant experience for me, but one that elicited much snickering from the youngsters.

Hitched teams of large draft horses, snorting and whinnying as they plow a muddy field, with pass-bys and follow-behinds.

The relaxing sounds of rain and rolling thunder, captured from inside an old metal-roofed barn on several occasions.

The peaceful sounds of clothes swaying on a line in an afternoon breeze.

The sound of cornstalks blowing in the wind in autumn and in winter, when they're dry and brittle.

The tink, tink, tap, tap as a farrier putting new shoes on a horse.

Bringing in dry hay at the end of the growing season, plus putting it into a silo.

Interior and exterior perspectives of two working vintage sawmills.

Inside a leather shop, where an Amish farmer makes hand-made flyswatters with his children.

The rhythmic sounds of a squeaky old metal windmill spinning, along with water that gurgles from the pipe as it comes out of the ground.

• Wagon and buggies (onboard and pass-by perspectives)

Visit www.evocativesound.com to find out more!

The Amish

The Amish Sound Effect Library Preview

A downy woodpecker hammers on a utility pole in Garden City, Idaho. Listen to the 60-cycle hum coursing through the pole, and the sound of the birds as they hammer other poles down the line.

Read more about it here:
https://www.evocativesound.com/the-secret-sound-of-snags/

Downy woodpecker hammering on a utility pole

Hello, I'm Richard Alan Hannon, an audio field recordist based in Northeast Ohio. I love searching out and recording unique high-quality soundscapes and sound effects near and far. As a former newspaper photojournalist who concentrated solely on visuals, I find myself smitten by sound in ways I never experienced prior to hitting the record button. Let me share my ear-opening passion with you.

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